Navy Reservist convicted of joining mob that occupied US Capitol

[douglas9]

Source: WUSA9

WASHINGTON — A federal judge convicted a Navy Reservist on all counts Tuesday for joining the mob that occupied the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Hatchet Speed, of McLean, Virginia, was found guilty of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanor counts by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden. McFadden delivered his ruling Tuesday following a brief bench trial last week.

Speed, a petty officer first class in the U.S. Naval Reserves, was arrested in June last year on four misdemeanor counts and later indicted on a fifth felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. He was released after his arrest on home detention and GPS monitoring and ordered not to possess any firearms, destructive devices or other weapons. At the time of his arrest, Speed had been assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia.

In charging documents, prosecutors said Speed told an undercover FBI employee he’d traveled to the Capitol with friends who were members of the Proud Boys and that going to the Capitol as “always the plan.” He said he’d entered the building in part because he’d heard former Vice President Mike Pence had “validated” certain ballots he considered “invalid.”

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[republianmushroom]

1. like it

[DENVERPOPS]

2. In addition,

Will he get a dishonorable discharge from the military, and forfeit any and all benefits, including retirement? That would really hurt...........

[GregariousGroundhog]

18. He's highly unlikely to get a dishonorable discharge

If his chain of command wanted to make a point, they could court marshal him for rioting or being away without leave (which he will be while in civilian prison) and discharge him with a bad-conduct-discharge if found guilty. More likely, they will just administratively separate him under other-than-honorable conditions. An other-than-honorable discharge still results the loss of most VA benefits.

[DickKessler]

3. Too many traitors breaking their oaths

Prosecute all of these insurrectionists, but for heaven’s sake DON’T LET TRUMP AND THE OTHER LEADERS AND ORGANIZERS OFF THE HOOK!!

[The Grand Illuminist]

24. They only prosecuted a single digit percentage on insurectionists

And the overall vast majority will be statute out. We need to make examples of those caught in the highest extreme possible. This guy basically got off light.

[Blues Heron]

4. what a name -Hatchet Speed. Sounds like his family raises racehorses or something

Loose lips sink dipshits I guess.

[Aristus]

7. It could have been worse.

I'm sure there are gun-crazed MAGAt parents out there naming their spawn Trigger Assembly or Large-Capacity Magazine.

[Blues Heron]

8. lol!

[bpj62]

5. Screwed

Not only will he be dishonorably discharged but he will also lose his top secret security clearance. I know where he works and he just ruined the rest of his professional career in the intelligence community.

[LittleGirl]

6. F*ed around, found out then

These Rambo types are cowards. Lock him up.

[orangecrush]

11. Seriously

How can otherwise smart people be so fucking stupid?

[halfulglas]

9. For someone working in intelligence he didn't have very good intelligence.

He had friends who were Proud Boys? He supposedly went (but had to have planned days before) because Pence had "validated" ballots he considered invalid, but at the time he joined the mob for travel to the Capitol, Pence would not have already certified the count. The states had certified their ballots, not Pence. So many of these people present had one or two pieces of fact surrounded by bullshit. He didn't really know how the process worked.

A psychologist wrote that the people who readily believe in conspiracies is because it makes them feel special, that they are "in" on information that isn't available to the majority of us. But jeez, he never explained that it eats their brains or something. So many people ruining their lives for the orange a-hole while he's living large and the fascism infecting more and more people that I would never have expected to become involved in the stupid and cruel.

Then there are the people at Fox who are still in it for the green.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Sentencing soon I hope?

[orangecrush]

12. A poster said he worked in intelligence

I wonder how much classified shit he shared with the "Proud Boys" that will end up in Russian hands?

Navy should do a full investigation.

[Grins]

13. All this and $40,000...?

Prosecutors allege the silencers were part of a more than $40,000 “panic buying” spree by Speed following the riot.

[riversedge]

15. "Speed will be sentenced in a separate case in the Eastern District of Virginia where a jury convict

and more to come for him. He deserves the book thrown at time.


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McFadden set a sentencing hearing for Speed for May 8. Prior to that hearing, Speed will be sentenced in a separate case in the Eastern District of Virginia where a jury convicted him in January of illegally possessing unregistered firearms disguised to look like cleaning supplies.

The silencers were discovered during a search of Speed’s residence following his arrest in his Jan. 6 case. Prosecutors allege the silencers were part of a more than $40,000 “panic buying” spree by Speed following the riot. According to court documents, Speed told an undercover FBI employee the silencers could be useful when he "carried out a plot to hold ‘mock trials’ for and kidnap his enemies, starting with local targets, such as members of the Anti-Defamation League."

[riversedge]

14. Will cowar @TuckerCarlson ante up his defence money??

[eggplant]

16. So, Navy, where's his dishonorable discharge?

[Angleae]

17. They can't.

A dishonorable discharge can only be given by a military judge. He was tried and convicted in a civilian court.

[eggplant]

19. Then they can try him there, too.

[Angleae]

20. No they can't.

Double jeopardy applies due to the fact this was by a federal court. Military courts are also federal courts. The military could only do this if it was a state court conviction.

[eggplant]

21. huh. the more you know.

[maxrandb]

23. He could and should be subject to Non-Judicial Punishment

No double jeopardy issue with NJP.

Lowest discharge type that can be awarded through NJP is "Other Than Honorable", but that would deny him retirement and other benefits.

Whether through NJP, or an Administrative Action (you can be administratively discharged for commission of a serious offense, or pattern of misconduct)...but either way his connection to the military SHOULD AND MUST be severed.

[Judi Lynn]

22. Older article says this racist had silencers disguised to look like cleaning supplies. . .

Jan. 6 defendant convicted on separate weapons charges
January 19th, 7:05 PM EST
Updated: February 9th, 7:06 PM EST
By The Associated Press



This image provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office of Hatchet Speed, accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
MATTHEW BARAKAT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A jury has convicted a Navy reservist from Virginia accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 on separate charges that he illegally possessed silencers disguised to look like innocuous cleaning supplies.

The conviction Wednesday night against Hatchet Speed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria comes a month after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his first trial, resulting in a mistrial.

At the retrial this week, the jury needed only a few hours of deliberation before convicting him on all three counts of unlawfully possessing unregistered silencers.

Speed's case is noteworthy not only because of his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 riot with the far-right Proud Boys group, but also because he espoused antisemitic views in undercover recordings and discussed strategies for eradicating the Jewish population in the U.S.

More:
https://www.cbs19news.com/story/48190400/jan-6-defendant-convicted-on-separate-weapons-charges